Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell sentenced a Hammond man to 25 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter in the 2012 stabbing death of his father.

A 13-year-old girl with a blood alcohol content of .196, more than double the legal limit for an adult, was charged with underage drinking after her younger brother called their father to tell him she'd been drinking, police said.

Portage police arrested a Chicago woman Friday after she allegedly tried to use a fraudulent gift card at a local drug store and later jumped out of the back of an ambulance on U.S. 6 in front of Portage High School.

Charges of aggravated battery, neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery on a person younger than 14 have been filed against a Hobart man involving an 8-week-old infant who suffered a broken femur and broken rib.

O'Bryan Brown was the kind of man who didn't think twice about intervening when his sister and her ex-boyfriend tussled Wednesday outside an Oak Knoll Renaissance apartment in Gary, those who knew him said Friday.

What started as an argument between a Gary woman and her ex-boyfriend led to emergency room visits for them and a violent assault on her brother, found unconscious in an alley near the hospital, according to police.

A Michigan City man faces felony counts of strangulation and criminal confinement in Lake County Superior Court for allegedly choking and threatening to stab a woman in a Hobart home where he had been doing repair work.

A Lake County coroner's office employee may have been involved with a 17-year-old Lowell High School student while he was on the job at the Crown Point office, but what he did wasn't against the law, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said Tuesday.

A 31-year-old Portage woman was arrested at 12:50 p.m. Sunday and charged with felony neglect of a dependent after her 13-year-old son told his father, the woman's ex-husband, that she smokes marijuana with her children.

A Griffith man has been charged in Lake Superior Court with attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury and attempted armed robbery in a June 27 incident that left a 17-year-old Highland boy hospitalized with a stab wound to the chest.

A former Gary firefighter convicted of running a dog-fighting operation is facing 10 charges in Lake Superior Court, including criminal confinement, battery on a person younger than 14, and strangulation involving two special education students.

Hobart police are seeking assistance from the public in identifying a man who attempted to make purchases June 16 at a retailer using fraudulent credit cards. Anyone with information can call Detective Nicholas Wardrip at 219-942-1125, ext. 1098, with information. Callers can remain anonymous.

Marsay Brown, 21, was arrested at 4:31 p.m. Monday for felony criminal recklessness after allegedly attempting to hurt staff members at the group home where she lives, in the 400 block of White Wood Drive, southeast of Chesterton.

Oak Forest police say someone stole a van loaded with thousands of dollars of equipment belonging to a touring blues musician in the early hours of Saturday morning, and the theft may be related to a smash and grab at a Tinley Park Best Buy.

A Chesterton man who made crack cocaine with his wife in their home — and that they sometimes sold in Chesterton with three children in their vehicle — is going to prison now that his wife has been released.

An argument between a boy's father and his mother's fiance launched a brawl at a T-ball game that left his parents and their significant others reporting injuries, police said. All four are Gary city employees.

A federal judge ruled Monday that two gun trafficking charges will remain against a Pennsylvania man accused of working with two Lake County Sheriff's Department officers to illegally buy and sell gun parts.

Despite grilling a Hammond woman over her scheme to use her job at a doctor's office to illegally buy and sell hundreds of thousands of painkiller pills for six years, a federal judge agreed on Tuesday to not send her to prison.

One of the two nurse practitioners accused of illegally prescribing diet pills out of the Kouts Family Health Clinic is now accused of improper payment of her employees' tax withholdings, and the case against them has taken a turn.